Re: XEmacs, TeX, and Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures
*- Branden Robinson wrote about "Re: XEmacs, TeX, and Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures"
| On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 08:43:10AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
| > >>>>> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> writes:
| > Branden> That and the fact that you really can expect to find GNU
| > Branden> emacs and TeX on just about any Unix system in the world,
| > Branden> regardless of vendor, which is part of the definition of
| > Branden> the standard priority.
| >
| > Show me where, in the shipped versions of AIX, Solaris, HP-UX,
| > SGI.... (you get the picture) there exists an emacs package *or* a Tex
| > package.
|
| Well, I guess Purdue spoiled me. They had things set up so that TeX and
| emacs were always around on all their Unices, at least on all the
| general-purpose machines I encountered. They didn't always stay on the
| bleeding edge of the releases, but the stuff was there...
|
At Purdue(at least on ECN and probably now everywhere due to the CUE
initiative) all those packages are under /usr/local or /usr/opt, which
are rdist'ed nightly from a central server. Hell, when the HP 735's
first showed up in the ME department(around '92?) I had to build emacs19
and have my sysadmin install it locally. Which wasn't fun because HP
didn't even ship a full set of motif libs with the OS and I had to use
the athena widgets, and even these weren't even in some standard
location (I learned to hate HP). I had to have my emacs!
My $.02US
--
Brian
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